CROW. 
(Corvus frugi/verous.) 
HE COMMON CROW is a foot and a-half long. Feathers 
of the throat oval, soft and blended. No snow-white 
plumage. Wings, tail, and back burnished. Head 
néarly dead black. 
Female smaller than male. 
Eastern United States. In settled parts of the country the 
Crow tends to colonize. Some of its roosts are of vast extent. 
Nest of sticks and trash, bulky. Eggs four to six, greenish, dotted 
and blotched with neutral tints, purplish and blackish brown. 
Nest in trees anywhere in the woods, usually concealed with 
some art. 
Voices highly unmusical. They walk firmly and freely on 
the ground. 
There was a suppressed excitement that was quite 
evident as the pupils gathered in the school-room this 
morning, for there had been a good deal of discussion 
the night before, while they had been copying the 
“table” in their note books. 
“T feel as though we were going to try a crim- 
inal,” said an imaginative girl. 
‘““Ho! a Crow is smart enough to go to college,” 
remarked a boy, as though that settled the matter. 
‘Because he’s smart is no sign he is good, is it, 
Miss Sweet ?” asked a boy whom the pupils laugh- 
ingly called “Querist.” 
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